Lomas Blancas: Casamayoran, Argentina
collected by Scarritt Expedition 1931
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Polydolopidae
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Polydolops serra
Ameghino 1902
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 28885 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Archaeopithecidae
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Archaeopithecus rogeri
Ameghino 1897
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Vera 2017 | |||||||||
| AMNH FM 28886 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
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Notopithecus sp.
Ameghino 1897
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Reguero and Prevosti 2010 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Notoungulata
- Oldfieldthomasiidae
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Oldfieldthomasia sp.
Ameghino 1901
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Vera et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MGP-PD 29065, maxilla P4-M2 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Argentina | State/province: | Chubut |
| Coordinates: | 45.3° South, 67.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 47.9° South, 57.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Casamayoran | Mammal zone: | Casamayoran |
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | AMNH | ||
| Collectors: | Scarritt Expedition | Collection dates: | 1931 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Said to be "Faunally unimportant" by Simpson (1948:28). | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 175739 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Butler, P. Mannion, J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | R. Butler, J. Zijlstra, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Kouvari | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-01-08 09:59:43 | Last modified: | 2020-09-22 03:12:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-08 09:59:43 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57557. | L. G. Marshall. 1982. Systematics of the extinct South American marsupial family Polydolopidae. Fieldiana Geology 12:1-109 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |
Secondary references:
| 58079 | M. A. Reguero and F. J. Prevosti. 2010. Rodent-like notoungulates (Typotheria) from Gran Barranca, Chubut Province, Argentina: phylogeny and systematics. In R. H. Madden, A. A. Carlini, M. G. Vucetich, R. F. Kay (eds.), The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 148-165 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 63245 | B. Vera. 2017. Patagonian Eocene Archaeopithecidae Ameghino, 1897 (Notoungulata): systematic revision, phylogeny and biostratigraphy. Journal of Paleontology [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 58073 | B. Vera, M. Fornasiero, and L. Del Favero. 2015. The Egidio Feruglio's collection in the Museum of Geology and Palaeontology of the University of Padova: its importance to the knowledge of Cenozoic mammals from South America. Museologia Scientifica 9:35-44 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] |